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-hood ... Hanukkah
Harare ... Hinduism
Hiroshima ... Houston
Howrah ... hacker
hackles ... hairnet
hairpiece ... half–light
half–mast ... ham
ham–fisted ... handbill
handbook ... hands–off
hands–on ... hanky–panky
haphazard ... hard sell
hard shoulder ... hardly
hardness ... harpsichord
harpy ... hatch
hatchback ... hawser
hawthorn ... head girl
head start ... headquartered
headquarters ... hearer
hearing ... heat exhaustion
heat lightning ... heavy–handed
heavyset ... heist
held ... helpless
helpline ... herald
heraldry ... hermit
hermit crab ... hey
hey presto ... high chair
high command ... high–class
high–definition ... high–voltage
high–water mark ... hilly
hilt ... historic
historical ... hobble
hobby ... holdover
holdup ... home economics
home fries ... homeroom
homeschool ... honest–to–goodness
honestly ... hoodlum
hoodwink ... hoppy
hops ... horse sense
horse show ... hostel
hostelry ... hotbed
hotcake ... houseboat
housebound ... hovercraft
how ... huh
hula ... humiliate
humility ... hunky–dory
hunt ... hut
hutch ... hyper
hyper- ... hypothesis
hypothesize ... hysterics
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someone who looks very much like another person
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